Wednesday, August 20, 2008

On Blogging and Food Blogging

If you're only interested in having a blog to record what you cook and eat, and maybe sharing it with a few people, then this post is not intended for you. Keep your blog private or password protected and turn off comments.

However, if you plan to make your blog public and/or to participate in the blogging community in any way, this post might be useful. If you plan to write about recipes you make, recipes you discovered from other blogs, restaurants you've dined at, restaurants you've discovered from other blogs, or anything else you want to post. Or if you plan to comment on blogs or want people to comment on your blog. Basically, if your blog is online and public, read this.

In "Murky Boundaries," in the American Journalism Review June/July 2008, Kevin Rector said, "According to a survey published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in July 2006, some 12 million American adults have blogs. Of those surveyed, 44 percent said they have been published elsewhere and 34 percent considered their blog a form of journalism. But at the same time, 55 percent said they blog using a pseudonym..."

In some cases and for some people, blogs have replaced many traditional forms of journalism. Specifically in the case of food blogging, no longer are people getting recipes or restaurant reviews solely from newspapers or magazines. Recipe compilation and restaurant review sites abound on the internet. What distinguishes food blogs apart from these websites is the personality of the blogger and the level of interaction you have with them.

"Food blogs are a wonderful source of recipes, stories, and opinions about food. These blogs are the labors of love of countless people from around the world who are so passionate about what they cook and eat they spend hours photographing and writing about it. Food bloggers usually give much more information and personal touches to what they write about than commercial cooking or recipe sites."

4 comments:

I actually am not one of those statistics cause I am only a reader, I guess that is a phenomenom. However, I do believe that in the near future though a few are already doing it - vlogging will become the new blog and bloggers will die out.

which leaves me with the impression that it will then make the world a neighbor to each other because people will become familiar to us and we will wind up bumping into vloggers wherever we will go: so tv stars eat ur heart out, cause soon TMZ will have vloggers to spy on and we will all become 'celebrity personalities'

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